on Fridays.)The Madison Avenue store is a seventh-floor oasis for book-lovers, a quiet and pleasantly furnished book room with a carefully chosen, expertly catalogued and broad-based selection of fine and rare books, autographs, manuscripts, and works of art. Originally from England, Gaiman now lives in the United States.įounded in 1978 by James Cummins, the firm has grown to include two New Jersey locations as well as the main store at 699 Madison Avenue (between 62nd and 63rd Streets) in New York City.Hours: Monday - Friday 10:00 a.m. Among his works are the children's books Coraline, The Wolves in the Walls, and The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish the Sandman graphic novels series and the fantasy novels Stardust and Smoke and Mirrors. Neil Gaiman is an award-winning author of novels, short stories, children's books, and graphic novels. He is the illustrator for The New York Review Children’s Collection books The Backward Day and The Wonderful O. He won a Caldecott Honor in 1950 for illustrating Ruth Krauss’s The Happy Day, and in 1957 he was awarded the Caldecott Medal for his pictures in A Tree Is Nice by Janice May Udry. Marc Simont (1915-2013) illustrated nearly a hundred books. He won a Tony Award for his popular Broadway play, A Thurber Carnival. Though hampered by failing eyesight, Thurber wrote nearly forty books, including collections of essays, short stories, fables, and children’s stories. He began writing for The New Yorker in 1927 after his friend E.
James Thurber (1894-1961), one of the outstanding American humorists and cartoonists of the twentieth century, was born in Columbus, Ohio, and launched his professional writing career as a reporter for the Columbus Dispatch in 1920.
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